Feb 25, 2022
Post Office scandal: Hull victim Janet Skinner addresses inquiry
Image source, AP. A sub-postmistress jailed after being falsely accused of theft has told an inquiry "It's destroyed my life". Janet Skinner was jailed in 2007 for nine months over an alleged shortfall of £59,000 from her Hull Post Office. Between 2000 and 2014, the Post Office prosecuted 736 sub-postmasters and sub-postmistresses accused of theft and or false accounting based on information from the computer system called Horizon. The convictions of Ms Skinner and 38 other sub-postmasters were quashed by the Court of Appeal in April 2021.The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry is led by retired high court judge Sir Wyn Williams. Ms Skinner, 51, told the inquiry she had loved her job at the Post Office when she joined in 1994, but once the Horizon system came in, the cash at her Bransholme branch "Never balanced".
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